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French and Indian War
Quick: write down all the words you think the colonists would have said in reaction to the proclamation of 1763
Sugar Act
•Sugar Act 1764
•Courtesy of Br. Prime Minister…(hint: GG)
•British taxed colonists on many of the goods coming into the colonies from other places
Stamp Act 1765
-Parliament passes Stamp Act
-placed a direct tax on the colonists
-required stamp on all legal documents, newspapers, license, and cards
-affected many colonists rich and poor
-Quartering Act, 1765
Theories of Representation
Q->Q-> What was the extent of What was the extent of Parliament’s authority over the Parliament’s authority over the colonies?colonies?
Absolute?Absolute? OR OR Limited?Limited?
Q->Q-> How could the colonies How could the colonies give or withhold consent for give or withhold consent for parliamentary legislation when parliamentary legislation when they did not have they did not have representation in that body??representation in that body??
Resistance Begins
-Sons of Liberty
Boston
Samuel Adams
John Adams
-no taxation w/o representation
-protests and boycotts were organized
Stamp Act CongressStamp Act Congress – 1765 – 1765 ** Stamp Act ResolvesStamp Act Resolves
-stamp agents were harassed
-law eventually repealed
Townshend Acts 1767-1770
-new Br Prime Minister Wm Pitt & Charles Townshend is Secretary of Exchequer (treasury)
- Shift from paying taxes for Br. war debts & quartering of troops paying col. govt. salaries.
-new tax placed on imports such as tea, glass, paper, paint
-colonists again reacted with protests (John Hancock’s ship Liberty)
-British reacted by sending 4000 more troops and adding more custom officials and establishing a Board of Customs in Boston
For the first time, people began calling those who joined the non-importation mov’t…
Revolutionists!
Boston Massacre
-March 1770
-protests by colonists
-British troops fire on crowd
-5 colonists killed
Crispus Attucks
-Most soldiers found not guilty
John Adams served as attorney for the soldiers
Boston Tea Party
-tax on tea still remain in effect
-monopoly on tea given to British company
-Dec. 1773 colonists raided Boston harbor and threw the tea overboard and burned the ships
Intolerable Acts
-Parliament passes Coercive Acts in reaction
-Colonist call it the Intolerable Acts
-closed Boston Harbor
-suspended basic civil rights
-housed troops in peoples’ homes
- British Gen. Gage now appt gov’nor of Massachusetts
-Committees of Correspondence